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Year: 2010
USA: Paramount Vantage
UK: Paramount Pictures UK
Cast: The Black Family, Geoffrey Canada, The Hill Family, The
Esparza Family, George Reeves (archive footage), Michelle Rhee, Bill
Strickland, Randi Weingarten
Director: Davis Guggenheim
Country: USA
USA & UK: 111 mins
USA Rated: PG for some thematic material, mild language and
incidental smoking
UK Certificate: PG contains infrequent mild language
USA Release Date: 24 September 2010 (limited Release)
UK Release Date: 26 November 2010 (Limited Release)
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Synopsis
Filmmaker Davis Guggenheim reminds us that education
“statistics” have names: Anthony, Francisco, Bianca, Daisy, and
Emily, whose stories make up the engrossing foundation of WAITING
FOR SUPERMAN. As he follows a handful of promising kids through a
system that inhibits, rather than encourages, academic growth,
Guggenheim undertakes an exhaustive review of public education,
surveying “drop-out factories” and “academic sinkholes,”
methodically dissecting the system and its seemingly intractable
problems.
However, embracing the belief that good teachers make good schools,
and ultimately questioning the role of unions in maintaining the
status quo, Guggenheim offers hope by exploring innovative
approaches taken by education reformers and charter schools that
have, in reshaping the culture, refused to leave their students
behind.
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